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Tame structures via character sums over finite fields

Logic 2019-07-17 v4

Abstract

We show that the theory of algebraically closed fields with multiplicative circular orders has a model companion ACFO\mathrm{ACFO}. Using number-theoretic results on character sums over finite fields, we show that if F\mathbb{F} is an algebraic closure of a finite field, and \triangleleft is any translation-invariant circular order on the multiplicative group F×\mathbb{F}^\times, then (F,)(\mathbb{F}, \triangleleft) is a model of ACFO\mathrm{ACFO}. Our results can be regarded as analogues of Ax's results in [1] which utilize counting points over finite fields.

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@article{arxiv.1704.03853,
  title  = {Tame structures via character sums over finite fields},
  author = {Chieu-Minh Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.03853},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

entirely rewritten, 25 pages, a number of results in the earlier versions removed (results about acl-completeness now incorporated into the more general framework of interpolative fusions, decidability results will be presented in a future paper)

R2 v1 2026-06-22T19:15:57.051Z